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The 2.16.2 release is a stable release of GDM with the following new features:



- Now support for "combo" style lists, and id values of "session" and "language" are supported for displaying the session/language lists as drop-down combos. (Brian Cameron). For example:

<item type="list" id="language" combo="true">
<pos x="25" y="10" height="40" width="300"/>
</item>
<item type="list" id="session" combo="true">
<pos x="50" y="10" height="40" width="300"/>
</item>

- Now OK/Start Again buttons are sensitive/insensitive in a more sensible way for both gdmlogin and gdmgreeter (if GTK style buttons are used in gdmgreeter). (Brian Cameron)

- Face Browser widget and background rectangle (for gdmgreeter) is not shown if there are no users to display. (Brian Cameron)

- Help button now enabled in gdmphotosetup. (Matthias Clasen)

- Fix so that if timed user script returns an invalid user that timed login is not turned on. (Andrew)

- Fix bug that was causing %t to be expanded improperly when used in the timed login label. (Brian Cameron)

- Set authdir to NULL after freeing to avoid accessing an invalid pointer. Fixes bug #359831. (Amnon Aaronsohn)

- Leaks fixed. (Kjartan Maraas)

- Translation updates (Abel Cheung, Priit Laes, Daniel Nylander)


Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp@mkp.net>. Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2: If installing from the tarball do note that make install overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf. It will however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3: Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
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Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.16/
Latest Unstable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/

No RPM this time around BTW. Have fun. A spec file is included though, so you can try:

rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz